There were only needed to support Python < 2.2, and we now require at
least Python 2.6.
Conflicts:
.travis.yml
Examples/test-suite/python/autodoc_runme.py
Source/Modules/python.cxx
This is a cherry-pick and merge from patch in #1261
These are not working yet for all combinations of builtin and PY3
The goal is to have a sensible default error that states that
pickling is not supported.
The metaclass (SwigPyObjectType) for SWIG objects was not defined in
a way that let importlib successfully import the Python wrappers.
The pickle module failed because it couldn't determine what module the
SWIG wrapped objects are in.
I've changed the definition of SwigPyObjectType using more normal
builtin type definitions. There are still some open questions:
- None of the builtin types, like swig_static_var_getset_descriptor and
SwigPyObject are added into any module. No call to PyModule_AddObject
is made, so isinstance cannot be used for any wrapped type, all of
which are derived from SwigPyObject.
Closes#808
William S Fulton